Ah, I see what you’re referring to now. π
Please try those steps above to get the editor style working again, that will help, but ultimately the problem with http://lorettasmith.com/make-take-class/ isn’t entirely WordPress’s fault. You would certainly be able to see and correct it easier with a working editor style, but it’s not exactly why this is happening.
so it’s not me or my site, it’s something that wordpress did.
Not necessarily. If a plugin or theme developer didn’t test their product prior to the update (they have about a month to do this, sometimes longer) and thus release an update themselves to correct any problem, it’s really not a WordPress problem. Like I said, everyone is a volunteer here, even the developers. The official directories currently show 32,044 plugins and 2,605 themes. The few developers who volunteer their time to WordPress do their best to ensure compatibility with everything, but they can’t guarantee it. Rather than a few developers testing almost 35,000 add-ons with each release, it’s up to the developers of those add-ons (each often with only one add-on to their name) to do so. That’s how a volunteer community survives, otherwise I’m sure there’d be no volunteers. π
Anyway, on to what’s actually happening.
This is essentially image layout 101. Every block of text and every image is essentially a block element itself. Just like working with blocks of wood, they can’t overlap, they appear relative to each other, and they try to minimize whitespace, so you need to adjust the spacing and size of those relationships to accomplish what you need.
When I look at the nicely laid out http://lorettasmith.com/supporting-physical-healing-in-your-home/ vs. today’s http://lorettasmith.com/make-take-class/ I see one big difference, there is much more text in the first one. When you have more text, there is a larger content block for your image block to relate to. Less text means smaller blocks for the images to relate to, and they all kind of jam in together wherever they can in an attempt to minimize whitespace, and they make a mess. π
So, all of that to say, it’s not really a WordPress issue, just a layout issue with how web design has worked for many many years.
Try to think of everything as a block of wood in a left-aligned environment which minimizes whitespace whenever planning your layouts. If the block on the left is the same size as or larger than the block on the right, everything will be wonderful. If the block on the left is smaller than the block on the right, you’ll have a big mess.
